Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Vampire Academy

I’ll be the first to admit I’ve been biased against the vampire genre ever since seeing Twilight. I tried to keep an open mind when starting Vampire Academy and while I still found the characters predictable and the drama a little tiresome, the book’s vampire lore actually had me hooked. I found the complex social structure of the vampire world interesting. Not only was there conflict between living...

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things

Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things lives up to the title. These legends and tales are often so strange that they feel as if they’ve been cut short. Very rarely is there any explanation for what exactly took place, the reader must interpret their own understanding. A few of these stories, such as Of a Mirror and a Bell and Diplomacy end abruptly, which is a technique not very common among...